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Years and years ago, back in my early days of study into Biblical history and the Qabalah, I gathered a set of awesome texts concerning Babylonian magick and religion. (Sadly I did not own them, but had checked them out from the local library – remember those?) Before I dove head-first into the Solomonic grimoires, I quite regularly invoked the Annunaki (Gods) of Sumeria and Babylon. I got outstanding results though Them – and that was before I knew how to properly build altars or work with them in a more traditional Pagan manner. (At the time, I was invoking them through a basic Qabalistic framework.)

In time, I left the Annunaki behind. It was largely out of respect, as I discovered that I didn’t know how to work with Them properly and that I should probably be focused more on the “Gods” of my own time and culture – that is the Archangels and Angels found within the Qabalah and the Solomonic texts.

Yet, I don’t think I said goodbye to them forever. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I know that I’ll return to Them again. That point was driven home a few years ago when Tabatha Cicero created her own Babylonian Tarot (for which, I am proud to say, I handed over to her all of my own research on Sumer-Babylonian language, myth and magick).

Now, the Annunaki have reached out once more to remind me They are there, and that They haven’t forgotten about me (or – that they don’t want me to forget about Them, as if I could!). Just recently, I stumbled across a website that offers many of the old books I used to create my own Babylonian practice – all of which remain to this very day some of the best books ever published on the subject. They are in PDF format and you can download them for free. I’ve created this blog post to archive the links for myself, as well as to share them with you. 🙂

6 responses to “Babylonian Magick – Major eText find!”

This is QUITE fortuitous, as i read a few of those same books back in the day at my University Library when i lived in Greece, but could not remember the names of the books once i returned to the US and started gathering my own library. Thank you so much for finding these and posing them online!
-Hypnovatos

I love the Babylonian Tarot. We met Tabatha and Chic at a festival when she had the artwork done, but the deck was not released yet. We went to her presentation with some trepidation, thinking that this was something that could be terribly hacked up. Two slides into her presentation, we were bouncing in our seats. If we had had smartphones bapreseen, we would have pre-ordered six decks before she finished.

I’m very glad to see that these links honor copyright: the archive.org titles are in the public domain, and the google titles aren’t really free. I don’t think magic can ever be really effective when it starts out with theft.